[Viiksitimali]

"Is Central Alaska the most similar type of geography to Finland in the United States? I would have thought Minnesota or Northern Maine."

I think the closest are Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota , Wisconsin.

"The topography, climate and woodland of this region are so similar to those of Finland that the transplanted Finn feels quite at home.
Mining and lumbering were the first occupations of the Finn after coming to this state."
Published in Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 2, November 1945.


Finland is much warmer than central Alaska

[MSF BU]

That is interesting information. If you read the last part of this article http://www.aei.org/article/102817 it references that specific georgraphy along with the fact that it remains the are most heavily settle by American of Finnish descent.